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Options and Options Trading: A Simplified Course That Takes You from Coin Tosses to Black-Scholes
Robert Ward

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Best option book ever
(New York, NY) September 26, 2004 - 5.0/5 stars

I've dabbled in options trading but until I read this book I always felt like I was an amateur playing a pro's game.

The reason I felt this way was that I never really understood the mechanics of what I was doing. I knew that option trading was based on a probability model called Black-Scholes, but I had no idea what that meant.

And I always felt like I would get better results if I had this knowledge. I've read other options books - but they all assume an advanced knowledge of math.

The author has a genius for taking difficult concepts like 'path dependency' and 'binomial distribution' and making them comprehensible - even to math-challenged people like me. After reading this book I have a lot more confidence that I know the rules of the game and I fully expect I will have better results in the future.

Simply put, this book is 'one of a kind'. Nothing else approaches it as a primer for an amateur interested in learning about options.

I enthusiastically recommend it!

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Options and Options Trading: A Simplified Course That Takes You from Coin Tosses to Black-Scholes
Robert Ward

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5.	Interesting and Fun to Read
	(Staten Island, NY) September 25, 2004 - 5.0/5 stars
	Robert Ward is an extremely intelligent author. He knows how to teach people and keep them interested. He made little jokes here and there that really made me want to learn about options. My favorite section of the book... read full review

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6.	Best option book ever
	(New York, NY) September 26, 2004 - 5.0/5 stars
	I've dabbled in options trading but until I read this book I always felt like I was an amateur playing a pro's game. The reason I felt this way was that I never really understood the mechanics of what I was doing... read full review

7.	Deceptive title, waste of time, money, and mental energy
	(New York) July 20, 2004 - 1.0/5 stars
	I bought this book already possessing a beginning knowledge of options; however I wanted to learn more about the basics, and then to get into slightly more advanced topics. All the way through, this book has almost NOTHING... read full review

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Options and Options Trading: A Simplified Course That Takes You from Coin Tosses to Black-Scholes
Robert Ward


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	An introduction to the complex world of options that every investor can use Too many books on options trading make the mistake of assuming that readers can already tell a delta from a sigma summation. Options and Options... read full editorial

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